You can't be a victim of a war you are responcible for starting. Boreman is right Nazi Germany had to fight from all sides around them in 1944, so they were spread out over long distance, plus the American's had a lot of supply's for use. Now, after reading many examples of the Japanese \"code\" to not surrender even when facing certain defeat, I feel that Truman probably did the right thing. As an American, I use to feel a nationalistic guilt over the dropping of the two A-bombs in Japan.